Oh, well, silver lining: the misinterpretation of that comment inspired more discussion than it would have had it been interpreted correctly as grammar pedantry lol

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That one’s actually what I’d consider affordable considering something like this beast (solar inverter / charger) was what I was originally looking at.

Exactly. Except I’m trying to avoid those kinds of “cigarette lighter” style adapters, but I’ve used them before (which is why I’m trying to avoid them this time around lol).

That looks a bit overkill for camping, but yeah, definitely what I’m after / trying to achieve. I guess I could justify the expense if I set it up at the house between trips. Actually…that’s not a bad idea.

If you want an integrated charger

Not for this, but I’m eventually looking for a 48v lithium charger for solar panels. The ones I looked at weren’t terribly expensive but were designed for larger systems than what I have (I just want to safely charge my 48v 20AH multipurpose ebike battery from solar)

It’s in storage since I moved a few years ago, but I had a 1.2 KW ground mounted grid-tie setup at my old house (basically a proof-of-concept before moving to something bigger). Looking to dig that out for either a bigger grid tie setup or possibly feeding something akin to a PowerWall. Probably going with LiFeP04 for safety / peace of mind reasons.

Cool guide! Skimmed it, but saved it for later to read through in more detail when I’m not on mobile.

I’ve got two sets of solar panels and two different use-cases.

The panels my power banks use are all regulated 5v output (3x 6 watts, one 20W, and one 12W). I take one or more of those backpacking.

The 12V->USB PD adapter I’m looking for is to hook into my 12V 50 or 100 watt panel I take camping (which one i take depends how many people plan to charge from it). In addition to being a charging point for my laptop, it would also charge my power banks much quicker since they support QC/PD charging at higher voltages than the 5V panels produce.

But yeah, PV panels “open circuit” voltage is closer to 17-21 volts, but once you put a load on them, they’re closer to 12-14.

That’s exactly what I do.

I’ve got a 2-port 100W GaN PD travel charger that I use for pretty much everything. When I travel, my laptop and phone are hooked into that, and the laptop acts as a charging hub for all of the smaller stuff.

Something like that, but closer to 45 to 65 watts and capable of 20v. There’s one I saw a while back (can’t find it now), but it’s up to 100W PD and uses MC4 connectors straight to the panel. It was…expensive.

This is what I’m currently looking at (and it lists the voltages unlike the other ones that came up in search results). Only problem with this one is reviews say it defaults to “off” and you have to press the button to turn it on. Not ideal when it’s going to be hooked to a PV panel.

Looks like revision 2 of the PD spec requires all of those voltages, but in revision 1 it doesn’t require 20v. And if they’re not listing the voltages, they’re prob not listing the PD spec revision it adheres to.

RavPower was my jam before they got booted from Amazon, but yeah, I stick to Ankler for the most part (unless I just need a dumb power bank to dump solar into that’ll charge my better power banks).

The reason I had to stray here is because I’m looking for a 12v -> USB PD adapter I can hook to a 12V solar panel. Not the “cigarette lighter” kind, but the kind you hard wire. No-name is about all you can really buy unless I want to crack open an Ankler or fuss with a cigarette lighter-style adapter (those are a PITA sometimes lol).

Yeah, I get the “SEO” aspect of it, but they could at least include the actual specs somewhere.

Should be, but not all of them support 20V.

Shit. That reminds me, I gotta file my taxes.

Not sure if you saw my edit, but you might want to edit the post to change the .'s in the URL to [dot] so it doesn’t linkify a likely malware link for other users.

That looks like the site got hacked and wants you to run malware.

I had that game, and I liked it only after I stopped comparing it to Goldeneye and played it for what it was. The multiplayer mode wasn’t great, but was still fun. For the most part, I just treated it like a single-player game and we’d always switch to Goldeneye for PvP until Perfect Dark came out.

Yeah, I mean to say Dimension and typed Precision. My bad.

I had an Optipex from that era too. It was “horizontal” but could also stand vertically. It was the business model.

This one, but beige:

The image is the Precision Dimension model which was the consumer version of it.

I’m exactly that old.

Edit: The PC in the image is a bit anachronistic. This is the workhorse we’re all thinking of:

These people would stick their house keys into a power outlet if someone anyone but a doctor told them it effectively treated covid, measles, herpes, whatever.

FTFY.

Doctors would tell them to get vaccinated, wear a mask, stay home when sick, etc. and they wouldn’t do that. Some antivax quack tells them horse paste, bleach, vitamin a, or literal snake oil will cure them? They’re all about it.

Do, uh, you want to get some of your things first?

Just get me the hell out of here.

Don’t you even want to know what this other timeline is like?

Did I stutter?